microsoft/FluidFramework

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4945 stars · 585 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Fluid Framework is a TypeScript/JavaScript library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications using distributed data structures (DDSes) like SharedMap and SharedTree. It synchronizes shared state across clients with low latency and requires no custom server-side collaboration code.

Use cases

• build a real-time collaborative document editor
• sync shared state across multiple browser clients
• add live co-editing to a web app
• build a collaborative whiteboard
• keep multiple users' views of shared data in sync in real time
• build multiplayer web applications without writing server sync logic

When to choose

• you need low-latency multi-user collaboration in a web app
• you want distributed data structures with familiar map/array/tree APIs
• you want to avoid writing custom server-side sync code
• you use JavaScript or TypeScript with any frontend framework

When to avoid

• you only need simple request/response APIs with no shared state
• your app is single-user with no collaboration requirements
• you need non-web platforms like native mobile or desktop without a JS runtime

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework state-management websocket concurrency web-development frontend microservices browser cross-platform crdt collaborative-editing distributed-data-structures realtime-sync typescript real-time nodejs web-server

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